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IX.)
?AITH
BUILT
ÓN
KNOWVLEDCE.
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found
in
him,
I am
persuaded
"
he
is
able"
and
willing
"
to
save
to the
uttermost;"
and
I
leave
my all with
him
till the
last
day.
Thus
we
have briefly
run
through the
personal qualifications
of
Christ. But,
II.
Besides these his
personal qualifications,
which
are
the objects
of
a
believer's
knowledge,
and the motives
of
his
faith,
there
is
another
thing
that
engages
his
confi-
dence
in
him
;
and
that
is,
his
special
character and
commission as
a mediator,
which he has
received from
the father,
and
which he
has
voluntarily undertaken to
fulfil.
Hereby
he
stands obliged
to use all
his
personal
abilities
to
take care
of
sinners
that
are committed
to
his
charge.
He
often speaks
of
his
being
"
sent
from
the
father
to
do
his will." See
John
vi.
39.
And
this
is
the
Father's
will
that
sent
me,
that
of
all
which
he
hath
given
me,
I
should
lose
nothing,
but
should
raise
it
up
again
at
the
last
day.
By
this
commission
Christ
has a
right
and
authority
to
exercise
all his
natural
powers
and capacities
to
secure
the
souls
of
believers,
The justice,
and
wisdom,
and
holiness,
as
well as
the grace
and mercy
of God
the
Fa-
ther, joined
to
commit
this
authority into
his
hands.
And
it
is in
this sense
that
all
power
in
heaven
and
earth
is
given
him;
Mat.
xxviii.
18.
And
he
is
head
over
all
things
for
the
church;
Eph.
i.
22,
When
we say,
that
all gifts
and
all
graces are
treasured up in
the
hands
of
Christ, to
be
communicated
to his
people,
we
mean
that
as
a commissioned
Mediator,
he has a
right-
ful
authority
to
exert
all
his
natural
and divine pòwers
in the
communication
of
gifts
and graces,
and holy
in-
fluences
of
the
Spirit
;
which
power
neither
he
nor
his
Father
did think
proper to
be
exerted without
satisfac-
tion made
for
sin
as
Mediator.
Behold then
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
the
Son
of Mary,
and the
Son
of
God
behold him
in all
the
sufficiency
of
the united
god
-head, and
in all
the glory and
authority
of
his
mediatorial
commission, fully
capacitated
to
keep
whatsoever
is
committed
to him
!
The
believer
sees
this
and
rejoices
;
he
beholds
all
the souls
of
sinners designed
for salvation
"
given
into the hands"
of
Christ,
"
by
the
Father,
to
keep
;"
which
Christ
himself often speaks
of
it
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